Re: concerning right-click Open Terminal

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

Yes, of course it'd be a g-t thing rather than nautilus, sorry, I got
off on a tangent there :)

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:51:05PM -0400, Daniel Brodie wrote:
> Wouldn't this be something that would belong in gnome-terminal rather
> then in nautilus? So there would be a per profile option for the
> starting size, or something like that. Take a look at bug #88991 and
> #68683 (whats with the cool bug numbers?) for gnome-terminal.
> 
> Daniel Brodie
> 
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 12:53, Alan wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:45:44AM +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 17:36 -0400, L Harrington wrote:
> > > > How can I change what gets run from an Open Terminal right-click on the
> > > > Nautilus desktop?  I want to set it to have a wider width (who uses
> > > > 80x25 anymore? heh) but someone told me Nautilus has this as a
> > > > compile-time option (!).  anyone care to enlighten me? thanks :)
> > > 
> > > Desktop Preferences->Advanced->Preferred Applications->Terminal Emulator
> > 
> > Assuming you mean you can set a size by setting the terminal to 'custom
> > termina' and then giving it flags (--geometry=NNNxNNN+N+N) that's VERY
> > user-unfriendly I think.  It requires far too much knowledge from the
> > user.  An 'use this size as default' button would be much better (IMHO
> > of course).  Personally I don't want to lose the nautilus placement of
> > where terminals go, but I would like to start terminal with a larger
> > height width than default withouth having to remember the exact syntax
> > of --geometry :)
> > 
> > Is this something that a bug should be filed for?
> > 
> > alan
> > 
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